Helnwein's "Ninth November Night" at the American Film Institute Festival AFIFEST in Los Angeles

Directed by Henning Lohner

A documentary on the works of Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein commemorating the Reichskristallnacht will bw screened on November 13th and 14th 2004.
Noted Austrian artist Gottfried Helnwein, obsessed with the fact that his society could ignore the deaths of six million victims, dedicates his art to Holocaust remembrance. When the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht passes without commemoration, he creates an heroic art installation. Co-stars Maximiliam Schell, Sean Penn, Jason Lee.

About AFI @ ArcLight6360 W. Sunset BoulevardLos Angeles, CA 90026Established in 2002, AFI at ArcLight is an ongoing program of film series, mini-festivals, retrospectives and special events presented by AFI in partnership with ArcLight Hollywood. AFI at ArcLight has recently presented series such as Latin Cinema Milestones, French Cinema Review, the LA Exhibition of Russian Cinema-an ambitious program of classic Russian cinema featuring new 35mm prints and electronic subtitles-a retrospective of director Stephen Frears and PERSPECTIVES, a festival dedicated to the inclusion of people with developmental disabilities. The 2004 season kicks off with the Jurlique Australian Film Festival.